-A <author-conv-file>::
CVS by default uses the Unix username when writing its
commit logs. Using this option and an author-conv-file
- in this format
+ maps the name recorded in CVS to author name, e-mail and
+ optional timezone:
+
---------
exon=Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
- spawn=Simon Pawn <spawn@frog-pond.org>
+ spawn=Simon Pawn <spawn@frog-pond.org> America/Chicago
---------
+
'git cvsimport' will make it appear as those authors had
their GIT_AUTHOR_NAME and GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL set properly
-all along.
+all along. If a timezone is specified, GIT_AUTHOR_DATE will
+have the corresponding offset applied.
+
For convenience, this data is saved to `$GIT_DIR/cvs-authors`
each time the '-A' option is provided and read from that same
* Multiple tags on the same revision are not imported.
If you suspect that any of these issues may apply to the repository you
-want to import consider using these alternative tools which proved to be
-more stable in practice:
+want to imort, consider using cvs2git:
-* cvs2git (part of cvs2svn), `http://cvs2svn.tigris.org`
-* parsecvs, `http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~keithp/parsecvs`
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>, with help from
-various participants of the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>.
+* cvs2git (part of cvs2svn), `http://subversion.apache.org/`
GIT
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